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Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769, British, Death of Ananias, 1740

Creator:: Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769
after Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520
Title:: Death of Ananias
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 18 inches (30.2 x 45.7 cm), Frame: 19 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches (50.2 x 65.4 x 6.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Jos. Goupy"; not dated
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1986.13
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: deaths | disciples | New Testament | religious and mythological subject
Associated People:: Ananias
Peter, the Apostle, St. (ca. 1 BC - ca. 68 AD)
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In 1736 the French-born Joseph Goupy was appointed by Frederick, Prince of Wales, as his "cabinet painter." Goupy's duties included looking after Frederick's art collection and presumably painting copies after famous works such as The Death of Ananias from Raphael's celebrated cartoons at Hampton Court (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum). Frederick certainly owned a set of Goupy copies after the Raphael cartoons, but it is not clear whether that was the same set earlier owned by the Duke of Chandos, from which this Version of The Death of Ananias comes.

Gallery label for The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 26, no. 89, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 24, No. 54, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 32, no. 54, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Tessa Violet Murdoch, The quiet conquest : the Huguenots 1685-1985 : a Museum of London exhibition in association with the Huguenot Society of London, 15 May to 31 October, 1985, The Museum of London, London, 1985, pp. 202-203, no. 291, BX9458 .G7 M87 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA [ORBIS]

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 26, no. 89, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Old master drawings : 19 June 1973, Sotheby's, London, 1973, lot 289, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 39, cat. no. 28, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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